Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-14
CLINTON CENTENNIAL.
THE VILLAGE PUTS ON GALA DRESS TO
GREET HER GREATEST son.
President and Mrs.. Cleveland Review the Parade
Speeches at the Cslsbrs6Ou-A Rush 10 Shake
Hsads-hs Banquet in the Bvsnlng-
The Presidents Speech.

dress Of welcome, to which the President
responded in \ few words. The Utica
JacksOnian Club, 100 strong, with the
Twelfth Infantry (U. s. hand saluted the
President and his wife as they stood upon
the platform of the coach. Crowded trains
have been running to Clinton all morning.
The Presidents special train started
at 9:l5 a. m. An immense
crowd was at the Ontario and
Western railroad station as the train pulled
out. They cheered the President and
waved their hats As he stood uncovered
and bowed his acknowledgements. Presi-
dent Cleveland and party reached Clinton
about 10 a. IN.
An immense crowd was at the station to
greet them. They were escorted by the
JacksOnians to Mrs. D. s. Williams resi-
denee, where they were greeted by promi-
nent members of the centennial committee
and many venerable citizens, while the
parade OF six divisions was going over its
route.
In the parade were Chiefs, descendants
of the Indians who gave the site Of the
village to its founders. Skenandoa and
DOXtateT, and over 100 Oneidas, with an
Indian band from the Onandaga reserva-
ton. There was one G. 4. K. Post in the
parade. After the parade the President spent
IN hour receiving callers at Mrs. Williams
home and over 300 people were presented.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The exercises in the Park did not COM
mence until nearly ? o'clock. Rev. Henry
Darley, President OF Hamilton College,
offered the opening prayer. The Rev. Z
p. Rowell then made an address of wei
come, to which the President responded as
follows:
lam by no means certain Of my stand
ing here among those who celebrate the
centennial OF Clinton's eXisteace as a viii
lage. NV recollectiOn4 of the place reach
backward but about 30 years, and my
residence covered very brief period. But
these recollections are fresh and distinct
to-day. and pleasant too, though not en-
tirely free from S0mbre colOring. 1t was
here in the school at the foot of college
hill, that l began my preparation Tor col
lege life and engaged in the anticipation OF
college education. We had two teachers
in our school, one became afterwards a
Judge in Chicago, and the other passed
through the legal profession to the minis
try and within the last two years was liV-
ing further West. | read a little Latin
with two other boys in the class, l think
| floundered thrOugh four books Of the
Aeneid. The other boys had nice large
modern editions of Virgil with big print
and plenty of notes to help one over the
hard places. Mine was q little Old-tash-
ioned copy which
MY FATHER USED BEFORE NE,
with no notes, and which was only trans
lated by hard knocks. | believe / have
forgiven those other boys for their persist
ent refusal To allow me the use OF their
notes in their books. At any rate they do
not seem to have been Oyertaken by any
dire retributiOn, as one OF them is now q
rich and prosperous lawyer, IN Buffalo,
and the other is a Professor in your col
Iepe and an orator of TO day celebration.
The struggles with ten lines OF Virgil,
which at first made mp my daily task, are
amusing n remembered now; hut with
tbem / am also forced to remember that
instead OF being the beginning Of the
bivher education, for which | honestly
Iouyed. they occurred near the end OF my
school advantages. This suggests dlsap'
poiutment which no lapse oi time can al
ieyiate, and deprivation l have sally
felt with every passing year. L remember
Rsnoni Butler and his store.
az don't know whether he was an habit
nal poet or not, but heard MIN recite one
poem of his own manufacture, which em-
hodipd nm account of q travel to or from
Clinton in the early days. ! can recall
bat two lines of the poem as follows:
Paris hill next came in sight
And there We tarried over night.
[ remember
THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHB0Hs,
Drs BiSsell and Scollard-and good kind
ueighbors they were tOo-not your cross,
,rabbed kind, who could not bear to see a
boy about. IL always seemed to me that
tbey drove very fine horses and for that
r,aSon | thought they must be extremely
rich. | don't know that | should indulge
| in further recOllectiOnS that must seem very
little like a centennial history nut J want
10 establish "a we'll as | can my right
10 be here. might have spoken
of the college faculty, who cast
such q pleasing, though sober shade OF
dignity over the place and who, with
other educated and substantial citizens,
made mp
THE BEST or SOCIAL LIFE
/ ( was boy then but, Notwithstanding,
believe | absorbed a lasting appreciation
of the intelligence and refinement which
made this delightful home. know that
Won will bear with me, my friends, II !
4 visld to the impulse which the mention OF
hOnse creates and speak OF my own nome
here. and how through the memories
which cluster about it, may CLAIM ten
der relationship to your vlllsge- Here II
was that our family circle entire, parents
and children, lived day after day IN
Loving and affectionate converse, and
here for the last time VT met around
the family altar and thanked God that our
household vas unhroken by death or sepa-
ration. We never met together in any
other home after leaving this, and death
lfnIIowed closely our departure. And 80 1t
ia that with the advancing years,
survey the havoc death has made, and the
thoughts Of my early home become
| MORE AND MoRE SACRED.
s9The rememberanee oil TINS pleasant SPo'
% related is revived and ehastened, can
oDlv add nv thanks for the privilege OF
zinc with YOU to-day, and wish Tor the
EvlIa1e Of Clinton IN the future continual
ton and increase of the blessings OF the
AT the banquet, in response 10 the toast 81
.sThe President OF the United states,
President Cleveland spoke as follows:
lam inclined TO content myself on LnlS
orcasiop with an acknowledgment on be-
SsIf al the Ueon!e of the United States OF
the compliment which yOu have paid to the
ofiee which represents their sovereignty.
Rnt sueS an acknowledgment suggests an
;Jss which cannot refrain from dwelling
upon for = moment. That the Ofhee Of
President Of the United States does repre-.
sept the sovereignty OF sixty millions oil
people is, to my mind, q ststemsht IuIl oi
solemnity, for this sovereignty 1 conceive
l..lk. tha xvorlrinV set or enforcement Ol